Talk:COMP 3000 Essay 1 2010 Question 9

Essay Format

I started working on the main page. The bullets are to be expanded. Other group are are working in their respective discussion pages but I think it's all right to put our work in progress on the front page. Thoughts?--Lmundt 16:14, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

• Gbint 02:03, 7 October 2010 (UTC) Lmundt; what do you think of listing the capacities of the file system under major features? I was thinking that we could overview the features in brief, then delve into each one individually.
• --Lmundt 14:31, 7 October 2010 (UTC) I was thinking about the major structure... I like what your suggesting in one section. So here is the structure I am thinking of.

• Intro
• Section One ZFS
  • Major feature 1
  • Major feature 2
  • Major feature 3
• Section Two Legacy File Systems
  • Legacy File System1( FAT32 ) - what it does
  • Legacy File System2( ext2 ) - what it does
  • Contrast them with ZFS
• Section Three Current File Systems
  • NTFS?
  • ext4?
  • Contrast them with ZFS
• Section Four future file Systems
  • BTRFS
  • WinFS or ??
  • Contrast them with ZFS
• Conclusion

What does everyone think of this format? While everyone should contribute to section one we could divvy up the rest.

Sources

Not from your group. Found a file which goes to the heart of your problem [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/overview/zfs-14990 2.pdf ZFSDatasheet] Gautam 22:50, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks will take a look at that.--Lmundt 16:12, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Gbint 01:45, 7 October 2010 (UTC) paper from Sun engineers explaining why they came to build ZFS, the problems they wanted to solve:

• PDF: http://www.timwort.org/classp/200_HTML/docs/zfs_wp.pdf
• HTML: http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:6Ex3KbFo4lYJ:scholar.google.com/+zettabyte+file+system&hl=en&as_sdt=2000

Excellent article.Lmundt 14:24, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Not too exciting but it looks like an easy read http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2008/03/past-present-future-file-systems.ars Lmundt 14:40, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

the wikipedia comparison has some good tables, and if you click the various categories you can learn quite a bit about the various important features //not your group. Rift 18:56, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I'm not from your group but I found this slideshow that was really handy in the assignment! http://www.slideshare.net/Clogeny/zfs-the-last-word-in-filesystems - nshires

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Hey there. I'm not a member of your group. But you guys might want to look at this Wiki-page from the SolarisInternals website. I used it today for our assignment, a lot of interesting and in-depth breakdown of the ZFS file system: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#ZFS_Performance_Considerations

-- Munther